Innovation

Last week I discussed the importance of converting data into value in Accounts Payable (“AP”). This week, I want to focus on how to go about creating an ‘intelligent’ AP operation. The first thing to keep in mind is developing an intelligent AP operation is a marathon – not a sprint. Accounts Payable leaders and [...]

Park City, Utah is home to majestic mountain views, great skiing, breath-taking hiking (literally), and bountiful wild game. It hosted the 2002 Winter Olympics, and very recently, it hosted Zycus‘s Analyst Day retreat, only the second in the company’s 20-plus year history. As a refresher, Zycus is a New Jersey-based provider of source-to-settle procurement solutions, and offers source-to-contract (S2C), procure-to-pay [...]

Coupa Inspire was held last week, June 24-27 in Las Vegas at the chic Cosmopolitan Hotel and Conference Center. Ardent Partners’ analyst team was in attendance. During the conference, Coupa Software, the San Mateo, California-based provider of end-to-end spend management applications for the cloud, made many announcements  — most relating to its family of B2B payments applications, Coupa [...]

Ardent’s P2P Technology Round-Up returns today with another assortment of ePayables, P2P, and B2B payment solution provider news and updates from the past week. If you are an Accounts Payable, B2B Payments, or Spend Management solution provider and you have news to share with us, please drop us a note at editor at cporising dot [...]

[Editor’s Note: Ardent Partners is pleased to present a new webinar, Five Signs You’re Ready for an AP Transformation and What to do Next, sponsored by Tipalti. This webinar is scheduled for tomorrow, June 20th at 2 PM ET. If you are interested in learning more, click here.] Change happens, businesses grow, and transformations become [...]

[Editor’s Note: You can download The State of ePayables 2019: Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence Report by clicking here.] I am excited to announce the publication of Ardent Partners’ 14th annual State of ePayables research report. The theme of this year’s report is “Driving Value in the Age of Intelligence”. This report presents a comprehensive, industry-wide view [...]

Many of the major shifts in the business world over the past decade revolved around the idea that businesses needed to “do more with less.” A decade removed from an economic downturn that forced enterprises to seek alternative workforce strategies vis-a-vis massive layoffs and organizational restructuring, there is one major fact that resonates with both [...]

Why do some supplier eInvoicing and payment initiatives succeed while others fail? The answer usually comes down to supplier enablement. Adoption is key for any program to succeed and those that do the upfront work to get suppliers onboarded are the ones that achieve the most success in terms of invoices being submitted and payments [...]

If you haven’t already, we invite you to participate in the 2019 edition of Ardent Partner’s annual State of ePayables research study. Below are three reasons, among many to take the survey now: As a thank you for participating in the research study, all participants will receive a complimentary copy of the final report when [...]

Over the past couple of months I’ve had the pleasure of speaking with many AP professionals at solution provider user conferences, industry trade shows, and via inbound inquiries to Ardent Partners. One thing has become apparent from these conversations, not everyone knows about and understands exactly what Virtual Cards (V-cards) are and how they work. [...]